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Exploring How Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Firms Create 'Value' for Organizational Stakeholders
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-09)The understanding of how firms create value for their stakeholders is important for advancing the empirical body of knowledge on stakeholder theory. This is especially relevant for the exploration of technology companies ... -
Exploring Human Teachers' Interpretations of Trainee Robots' Nonverbal Behaviour and Errors
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-22)In the near future, socially intelligent robots that can learn new tasks from humans may become widely available and gain an opportunity to help people more and more. In order to successfully play a role, not only should ... -
Exploring interactions between force, repetition and posture on low back joint loading and intervertebral disc injury
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-26)Low back pain (LBP) affects approximately 80% of the population at some point in their lives, with 65% of cases becoming chronic pain sufferers. Approximately 40% of LBP cases are attributed to intervertebral disc (IVD) ... -
Exploring Ligand Structure and Thermodynamics of the Malachite Green RNA Aptamer
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)RNA aptamers are in vitro sequences of RNA that have a high affinity for their target ligand. They have applications in therapeutics, biosensors and molecular machines. While the practical applications of aptamers are ... -
Exploring links between citizen environmental monitoring and decision making: three Canadian case examples
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Environmental decision making processes are subject to diverse and at times conflicting pressures. On one hand, an enlightenment perspective places high value on scientific information about complex environmental ... -
Exploring Local Economic Development: The Challenges of Cape Breton Island
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-13)Economic development in the declining Maritime Provinces has proven to be an intractable problem over the last 70 years. Efforts have ranged from capitalist industrial resource extraction to worker-owned producer co-operatives. ... -
Exploring long-stay seniors’ transitions from home care services to self-management
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-05)As a result of longer life expectancies and below-replacement fertility rates, the Canadian population is aging. Approximately 14.8% of the Canadian population was aged 65 years or older in 2011. The senior population is ... -
Exploring Low to Moderate Velocity Motor Vehicle Rear Impacts as a Viable Injury Mechanism in the Lumbar Spine
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)Epidemiological research suggests that up to 50% of individuals involved in low speed rear impact collisions develop acute onset low back pain. Given that little information is known about the low back injury mechanisms ... -
Exploring many-body Physics with Recurrent Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-22)Originally developed within the natural language processing community, Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have enabled remarkable progress in speech recognition and machine translation. These architectures belong to the class ... -
Exploring Methods for the Characterization of Viral RNA-protein Complexes
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-24)Flock House virus (FHV) is a (+) ssRNA virus that belongs to the Nodaviridae family. The viral genome is composed of two viral RNA’s: RNA 1 and RNA 2. Deletion and mutation studies in the N- and C-terminus of protein alpha ... -
Exploring microbial diversity across a Southern Ontario landfill
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-11)Sanitary landfills are highly engineered environments that receive a heterogeneous mixture of organic waste, metals, and plastics. Global waste production continues to grow every year and waste management is an increasing ... -
Exploring Microfluidic Design Automation: Thin-wall Membrane Regulator
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)Microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip are a growing technology, influential in many areas of engineering. This project focuses on the necessity for better computer aided design tools for this area. Specifically, it focuses on ... -
Exploring Mind-Wandering Experiences in Gameplay
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-26)Mind-wandering---spontaneous thoughts---is a common process that can interfere with attention and focus, but can also be beneficial for mental health, creativity, learning, and (in some cases) task performance. Digital ... -
Exploring Motivations and Values for Domestic Travel from an Islamic and Arab Standpoint: The Case of Saudi Arabia
(University of Waterloo, 2011-07-20)Saudi Arabia is the world's leading oil producer and exporter. The economy in the country is almost totally dependent on oil. Tourism is one of the sectors which received more attention in the last few years after the ... -
Exploring New Forms of Random Projections for Prediction and Dimensionality Reduction in Big-Data Regimes
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-01)The story of this work is dimensionality reduction. Dimensionality reduction is a method that takes as input a point-set P of n points in R^d where d is typically large and attempts to find a lower-dimensional representation ... -
Exploring new routes to decoherence-free quantum computing; and quantum thermodynamics for fermions
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)This thesis has two parts; the first part is a contribution to the research field of quantum measurement in quantum optics while the second part focuses on quantum thermodynamics for fermionic systems. The aim of the ... -
Exploring organizational commitment following radical change A case study within the Parks Canada Agency
(University of Waterloo, 2002)Understanding how committed employees are within an organization is a valuable tool for managing and fostering a successful work environment. A continued appreciation of employee commitment is especially beneficial ... -
Exploring Participants’ Expectations and Experiences of Short-Term Language Programs
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)This study examines the concept of language learning as part of educational tourism with a particular emphasis on the participants enrolled in short-term English programs in Toronto. The purpose of this phenomenological ... -
Exploring Pathways for Social-ecological Transformation in the Cau Hai Lagoon, Vietnam
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-23)The concept of transformations is used in this dissertation to engage with questions surrounding what profound social and ecological changes mean for small-scale fisheries communities, and the implications of such change ... -
Exploring Peel Region’s “Healthy Development Assessment” Healthy Built Environment Tool and Policy-Making Process: Critical Lessons for Future Research and Policy.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-12)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the critical literature on “healthy built environment” planning policy-making. It applies the theories of post-politics and policy mobilities against a case study of Peel ...